There is no social philosophy, however logical and far-seeing on other points, which does not lapse into incoherence, as soon as it touches the subject of woman. The thinker abandons the laws of reasoning which he has obeyed until that fatal moment; he forgets every principle of science previously present to his mind, and suddenly descends to a lower intellectual plane, making statements that any schoolboy might scorn. Our philosopher—once so strict in logical inference—takes the same view of women as certain Indian theologians took of the staple food of their country. “The Great Spirit,” they said, “made all things, except the wild rice, but the wild rice came by chance.” Women are the wild rice of the modern philosophical world.